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Social status, the relative rank that an individual holds, with attendant rights, duties, and lifestyle, in a social hierarchy based upon honour or prestige. Status may be ascribed—that is, assigned to individuals at birth without reference to any innate abilities—or achieved, requiring special.
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Jan 10, 2022 · Critically, in addition to modulating short-term associations between rank and fitness, dominance trajectories can reflect selection on status-seeking behaviour or influence the stability of social systems.
Dec 6, 2021 · Judgments of status may be based in part on physical cues (i.e., attractiveness, dominance) and correspond to facets of individuals’ self-reported social status. Attractiveness and dominance may influence how people are treated and thereby shape self-reported social status.
Jan 10, 2022 · Abstract. Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs and benefits to extract deference from others, often through aggression, threats and/or intimidation.
May 1, 2019 · While dominance is common across social species, including humans, Henrich & Gil-White argued that prestige is unique to humans due to our unusually extensive reliance on social learning.
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Dec 7, 2023 · To establish a connection between geography and social norms, I distinguish six aspects of geography: (1) predominant (historic) subsistence mode, (2) pathogen prevalence, (3) volatility of weather conditions, (4) proneness to natural disasters, (5) terrain characteristics, and (6) historic climate change.
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Aug 22, 2017 · One possible explanation, scientists say, may lie in what’s known as Social Dominance Theory, the idea that human societies are organized in group-based social hierarchies in which some enjoy greater access to resources and opportunities than others.
